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Drive: The First Quartet: New Poems, 1980–2005
This five-part collection of poems ranges from highly political to gently playful and personal.
- GenresPoetry
320 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2005
About the author
Lorna Dee Cervantes
19 books36 followersA fifth generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumash) heritage, Lorna Dee Cervantes was born on August 6, 1954, in San Francisco, and raised in San José.
She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público Press, 1991) and Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award.
She is also co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, 1994), No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets (ed. Florence Howe, 1993), and After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (ed. Ray González, 1992).
In 1977 she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1995 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.
She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
[Description from: Poets.org.]
She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público Press, 1991) and Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award.
She is also co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, 1994), No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets (ed. Florence Howe, 1993), and After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (ed. Ray González, 1992).
In 1977 she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1995 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.
She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
[Description from: Poets.org.]
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October 3, 2019
Powerful collection. Had the privilege of sitting in a workshop with Ms. Cervantes years ago and it turned out to be one of the experiences that helped shape my own writing and scholarship.
These poems unveil a terrain that cannot be separated from historical, traumatic, cultural, moral, and family winds that swirl around it. These poems are about as close and intimate a reader can get to seeing each emotional force tugging at another - without being that person.
These poems unveil a terrain that cannot be separated from historical, traumatic, cultural, moral, and family winds that swirl around it. These poems are about as close and intimate a reader can get to seeing each emotional force tugging at another - without being that person.
July 11, 2008
To all of us, from an honest, most conscious, most intelligent activist - who grew up in Barrio Horseshoe in San Jose. Most passionate and exciting reading I ever attended was to hear her read from this book.
February 17, 2026
I absolutely loved this book! it's now one of my favorite books of poetry. I actually read this in two because the poetry in here had me in a trance. I highly recommend it!
June 6, 2007
A huge collection, so I only read excerpts. Not my thing.
February 13, 2009
Simply amazing :) I'm biased towards Miss Lorna Dee, but, her work really is extraordinary.
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